Venus in Hasta Nakshatra (Shukra in हस्त)

Hasta, the 13th of the 27 nakshatras, covers 160°00′ – 173°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, wholly inside Virgo. Hasta is ruled by the Moon, so Venus in Hasta stands in the Moon’s star.

Venus counts the Moon an enemy, while the Moon counts Venus neutral. The table is not symmetric, so Venus in Hasta has to be described from both sides, as it is here. The other two nakshatras the Moon rules, Rohini and Shravana, put Venus under the same star lord.

Venus in Hasta, Pada by Pada

By rashi, Venus is debilitated in all four padas of Hasta, because the whole nakshatra lies in Virgo. By navamsa the four padas fall in Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Venus’s strongest navamsa in Hasta is pada 2 (Taurus, in its own sign), and its weakest is pada 4 (Cancer, in an enemy's sign).

Neither Venus’s deepest exaltation (Pisces) nor its deepest debilitation (Virgo) degree falls inside Hasta, and Venus’s moolatrikona lies outside it as well, so in Hasta the rashi and navamsa verdicts above are the whole of Venus’s dignity.

When Venus Is in Hasta, 2026–2028

• 11 August 2026: Venus enters Hasta, and leaves on 25 August 2026 — 14 days.
• 17 September 2027: Venus enters Hasta, and leaves on 28 September 2027 — 11 days.
• 31 October 2028: Venus enters Hasta, and leaves on 11 November 2028 — 11 days.

Those are the three spells Venus spends in Hasta between 1 January 2026 and 1 January 2029, 36 days in all. Over the same span Venus stands in every one of the 27 nakshatras. The dates are days only; for Venus in Hasta a minute would be more precise than the ayanamsa behind it.

Inside Hasta: what the tables locate there for Venus

Of the 84 complete spells Venus has in the table, in any nakshatra, the shortest is 10 days and the longest 43; the Hasta spells, at 14, 11 and 11 days, sit inside that range.

• 10 November 2028: Venus meets Jupiter at 22° Virgo, in Hasta pada 4.

Hasta as the Setting for Venus

In the nakshatra tables Hasta’s deity is listed as Savitar and its symbol as hand; its gana is Deva, and the muhurta texts put it in the Kshipra class (swift and light). Those belong to Hasta whichever graha is in it, and they are read on the Hasta page. What changes with Venus is everything above: the dignities in Virgo, the relation to the Moon, and the dates. None of it is a prediction for anyone born with Venus in Hasta; the house it occupies and the dasha running decide what the placement does in a chart.

Related Placements

The sign-level reading is on Venus in Virgo; Venus in all 27 nakshatras is on the Venus nakshatra table. For the nakshatras themselves, see the 27 nakshatras guide and our Hasta article.

The Other Grahas in Hasta